End of the Road

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I am less than a thousand light years out from Beagle Point beginning a slow-boat journey home. Using the new feature in the galaxy map which highlights previous systems you have visited, I was retracing my jumps back and made a 50% boost into a system. It has one landable planet with a rich source of materials.

Without thinking, I did a normal jump to the next 'blue' system (which has no planetary bodies) knowing that the NEXT system on is a mere 48 light years from my current one. No problem, I thought. I have 29 ly range on this old Lakon Type 6E.

So you can imagine my horror when I jump into the first system (with no planets) only to see that the NEXT one is 30.3 light years away. I can't make it without boosting and in my stupidity I didn't realise that on the 50% boost I used up all my Germanium.

No problem, I thought, calming myself with a cup of earl grey tea. I will jump BACK to the system behind me with that one landable planet. So I do. Only it has plenty of Vanadium listed but no Germanium at all.

So now I am in a dead end bouncing between two systems, unable to boost, and with one planet I can land on that lacks Germanium - the one material I am missing.

There are no other systems in jump range at all. I have reached the end of the road.

It's my own fault - I was so excited to see my route in to Beagle Point marked out as blue systems that I failed to check the distances correctly.

Wait - so a Fuel Rat could rendezvous with my Lakon Type 6E and blast away at the rings until Germanium pops out? I can then scoop it straight into the materials hold and break free from this hellish twin-system prison???

That would be epic and crazy!

If that could be done, this would be one very grateful Lakon pilot. Let me jump back into ED and get more system details so I can report back.

Wait - so a Fuel Rat could rendezvous with my Lakon Type 6E and blast away at the rings until Germanium pops out? I can then scoop it straight into the materials hold and break free from this hellish twin-system prison???

That would be epic and crazy!

If that could be done, this would be one very grateful Lakon pilot. Let me jump back into ED and get more system details so I can report back.